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2011 World Standard

The entire final of the 2011 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Standard in Moscow, RUS. This is "The (Ultimate) Final Reel"! The images are once more courtesy of the host broadcaster, Channel One Russia.

With the 30-minute reel the "Live from Moscow" coverage concludes.

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PH7l6XWnL-c|The Final

For some strange reason, "The Final Reel" cannot be watched embedded here or on our channel at this moment. To watch it on YouTube, click through on the player above or use the link

The reason WDSF Communications keeps this blog active even four days after the memorable World Standard in Moscow, RUS, is that there are still heaps of unedited material you should not miss out on.

The host broadcaster of the championship, Channel One Russia, very generously provided WDSF with a line cut of their coverage: quarterfinal, semi-final and final. More than one hour of top-quality recordings will still go up here and on the WDSF YouTube channel DanceSport Total. On top of that, there are still many more recordings of the first two rounds, of couples from around the world.

All in all, we can safely make this claim at this point already:

"The 2011 World Championship Standard will go down as the best exposed and most widely watched DanceSport event to date."

Thanks for your comments to our post "Moments Like These". Visitors making the effort to provide us their opinion on whatever goes up on worlddancesport.org and, in particular, on the blogs are most welcome.

However, one clarification is in order regarding the concerns you seem to have. Our hompepage is taken up by the "Official Championship Blog" at this moment for reasons of actuality: Saturday's World Standard in Moscow. A blog, or Web log, is kept in a chronological order by definition. The order of the articles is subject to one thing and one thing only: the chronlogical sequence in which they were posted.

In fact, it could be argued that Benedetto and Claudia appeared in the first post yesterday, 31 October, because they came in second in the championship, and that you had to scroll down in order to get to Emanuel and Tania simply because they won.

That last thing we want to do is sound cheeky or refute anyone. Too much other work still remains to be done: reporting on Saturday's champions, the runners-up and all the other couples who also put in brilliant performances in Moscow. By doing so we illustrate best how chronology prevails over any other editorial criteria when it comes to the order of our posts in this blog. Here we go ...

Benedetto Ferruggia and Claudia Koehler, GER, came in runners-up to Valeri - Kehlet, DEN, at the 2011 WDSF World DanceSport Championship Standard in Moscow, RUS.

Heidi Goetz talked to the couple immediately after the presentation of the awards. To quote a sportswriter: "It is the the privilege of champions to accept a defeat with the same dignity and poise as they would accept their victory."

6ltZRBpP3QY|Benedetto Ferruggia - Claudia Koehler, GER

By WDSF Communications on
31 October 2011 18:12

Vera on
31 October 2011 23:26

There is a surprising result and a new world champion and one has to scroll down more than half the page to get to know who it is... I think they would deserve the title of the news and the first interview shown in this report...
Congratulation to all the dancers for their great dancing!

I agree with you, why is it a problem for this organisation that they have new world champions. Show the champions some respect, they deserve it. They had there night, good dancing and they where payed for it. Just accept the new world champion. Congratulation
Emanuel & Tania.

On most other blogs a comment like this would get deleted. Not here - not for the time being! We have established simple rules that we will enforce: no profanity, no insults and no foul language. John's remark does not violate any one of the three. We
are firmly convinced that everyone who knows and appreciates DanceSport takes John's manifestation of disrespect as what it is: a waste of time and effort to comment on further.

What is your problem?
What the people says, is the TRUTH, also if you don't like. It is the time to change your policy ... We would like to see true champions, and not only german/russian dancers that win unjustly. They MUST deserve the victory, also do dancers of other nations.

Unfortunely for you, I am not a dancer, or parent/friend of a dancer, or a member of a dance federation. I'm only a person (that knows dance until 1970), that follows this discipline and the Latin competition. So, the word DITTO (idem) is not correct for
me. However, we will see your behaviour in the future...